Pianist Dongni Xie is a distinguished pianist and prize-winner of numerous international piano competitions, including seven first prizes. Critics have praised her “bold and riveting” (Peninsula) and “bravura performance…mature and relaxed, perfectly in line with its composer’s presumed intention.” (Herald Tribune). She’s held performances at Carnegie Hall, Château de Fontainebleau (France), Dream Forest Arts Center (South Korea), Gijon City Hall (Spain), and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, as well as a plethora of other venues throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States— being the featured soloist with orchestras such as the Boulder Symphony Orchestra, the Debut Symphony, and the Meadows Symphony Orchestra. Her recently performance with Mansfield Philharmonic was covered by NBC 5.

Xie has appeared as a featured artist at numerous international music festivals, including the Imago Sloveniae (Slovenia), Festival ARTIS (Slovakia), Shanghai Conservatory Music Season (China), the Summer Music Festival (UK) and the Sarasota Music Festival. An avid chamber musician, Xie collaborates frequently with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and The Dallas Opera at their chamber concerts. Xie is an advocate for new music and has premiered many solo and chamber works in the genre. She is the Artistic Director of the “In Bloom” musiCON Concert Series in New York City and co-founder of Live! Again, a series that blends music with visual arts. She also founded In6ix, a jazz-classical fusion sextet that includes Grammy winning musicians. Xie actively supports music education and charitable causes, performing benefit concerts for orphans, refugees, and local charities, and volunteering with programs like OrchKids and Cliburn in the Classroom.

Born in Changsha, China, Dr. Xie has studied with Chen Jiang, Yong Hi Moon, Norman Krieger, Pamela Mia Paul, and Joaquín Achúcarro. She is frequently invited to give lectures and to serve on competition juries worldwide. In August 2025, she joined the faculty of the SMU Meadows School of the Arts.